Llantwit Fardre 1 Monmouth Town 2 Monmouth Town 2 Cwmamman United 1
Monmouth Town's Kingfishers made it sixteen points from eighteen and flew into the top half of the Welsh League Division three for the first time this season with convincing back to back wins against tough opponents last weekend. A superb first half display against high flying Llantwit Fardre who were looking to put themselves into the top three was enough to see off a more determined Fardre second period fight back. Two superb strikes from Rogers and Bowen and an all round confident passing display made a mockery of any notion that Town were a relegation threatened side a mere two months ago. With even the watching Llantwit supporters applauding some of the passing and movement of Nick Oxford's youngsters there seemed no doubt that his young charges would return with all three points to Monmouth but if the first half showed how good they could be in an attacking sense the second showed the improvement in organisation and resilience of a side that a few years ago would have folded under the physical pressure of the many high balls they had to deal with . As it was, Aaron Davies was once again superb and commanding and Dan Spence gave more proof, if it were needed, of his claim to be the Town's find of the season. Lee Williams in the town goal although at fault for a rash challenge which gave Llantwit a penalty also staked a further claim to be rightfully recognised as Town's first choice keeper. It was similar story the following afternoon as the Kingfishers returned to Town after six games on the road and in front of the largest crowd of the season set about making it into the top half of the table by winning against a Cwmamman United team who had enjoyed considerable recent success. Indeed although the Neath based outfit looked to at least want to keep the ball on the floor unlike many visitors but showed little concerted attacking threat and were undone when Bowen latched onto a superb Alderdice through ball and rolled the ball past the keeper for Ford to tap into an empty net. Town should have scored a couple more before the break as first Harris then Wookey spurned good opportunities and Rogers strangely refused to shoot when through on his own. It was a similar story in the second half as Cwmamman looked to be the better side but opportunities were passed up by Ford Rogers and Bowen before Rogers went on a barnstorming run to finish emphatically in the bottom corner. Cwmamman got back into the game with a deflected long range effort which deceived Williams and Town then seemed to try their best to throw away the points by gifting possession to the opposition. Matthew Tabb also has a great chance to finish off the visitors in the closing minutes but his shot was cleared off the line. Town are at home again tonight (Wednesday) for their final home game against Ystradgynlais (kick off 6.15) and Manager Nick Oxford wants his team to take their recent form into a promotion challenge next term "We've had a fantastic last couple of months and have lost only four times since the turn of the year, winning twelve. Our main aim is to keep that eighth spot and build on it for next season. I've said many times that we have nothing to fear from anyone in this division and we can certainly challenge next season so long as we keep learning and improving."